Recent News

Monday, November 26, 2018 1:30- 2:30 PM ~ HPNP G-210 Sarah Westen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate University of Florida Department of Clinical & Health Psychology Approximately 1.25 million Americans currently live with type 1 diabetes, including 200,000 youth (1:500). Each year, 40,000 people are diagnosed…

November 16, 2018; 12-1pm Communicore C1-3 Presented by the Education and Advocacy Committee Joan Flocks is the Director of Social Policy for the Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR). She teaches courses and publishes in the areas of social justice lawyering, poverty law, and environmental justice. She was previously an assistant professor…

Neuropsychology students and faculty from the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, along with collaborators from Neurology, Community Health and Family Medicine, the University Athletic Association, and Banyan Biomarkers, Inc., recently published the Concussion Biomarkers Assessed in Collegiate-Student Athletes (BASICS) paper series.  This 3-part series appears online in Neurology, the official journal of…

On November 9th, the Department’s second year students presented their Masters Research to the CHP community. Presenter Faculty Mentor Presentation Title Gabriel Cartagena Deidre B. Pereira, PhD, ABPP Understanding the relationships among racial/ethnic minority status, socioeconomic status, mood/anxiety, and cytokines in women undergoing surgery for suspected gynecologic cancer Brittany…

Please welcome Dr. Kristin Hamlet to our CHP faculty!  Dr. Hamlet is a licensed clinical psychologist with specialty training in neuropsychology. She completed her doctoral training and clinical internship at the University of Florida’s Department of Clinical & Health Psychology, and completed fellowship training at Emory University’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine.

CHP Doctoral student, Janae Kirsch, MS (mentored by Dr. Deidre Pereira) has won the 2018 UF Health Cancer Center Predoctoral Award for her dissertation entitled “Circadian Rhythms in Gynecologic Cancer: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Intervention.” Within cancer populations, circadian rhythms may become dysregulated due to factors such as altered hormone levels…

Congratulations to Dr. Deidre Pereira, who has achieved the award of ABPP specialty board certification in Clinical Health Psychology. This board certification attests to her excellence in meeting the advanced education, training, and professional standing established by the specialty, as well as examination by peers in the specialty attesting to the demonstration…

Congratulations to Dr. Lisa King, who has achieved the award of ABPP specialty board certification in Clinical Psychology. This board certification attests to her excellence in meeting the advanced education, training, and professional standing established by the specialty, as well as examination by peers in the specialty attesting to the demonstration…

The Neurocognitive Screening Initiative (NSI) provides a cognitive assessment service to adults who have concerns about their thinking and/or memory – including symptoms of ADHD, epilepsy, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and dementia syndromes like Alzheimer’s disease. The clinic offers screenings to uninsured individuals or those who cannot otherwise afford cognitive testing. Providers are neuropsychology graduate students,…